You have your first trip to India and want to shake hands with an Indian by your left hand, you will get the supercilious look and unwelcome there. Why so odd? You just want to show your friendly, but actually you against the Indian culture. And this kind of intercultural communication problem you might have when meeting foreigner due to the culture difference and cultural reality.

     From the time you born on the earth, you will be taught to abide the culture which your ancestors created, actually you don’t understand what it is even though you act like that, all you have known is that it’s called culture. Culture which seems invisible but always around our daily life and affect our whole life has it’s deep structure and roots. The sources of how a culture views the world can be found in its deep underlying structure—worldview、family、history.

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1 ) Worldview

What people do is designed by how they think and view in this world，and one’s world view will influence all aspects of our perception and consequently affects our belief and value system as well as how we think. In some countries, men are considered as king and they have the sovereign rights. For example, in Korea, when men are having supper, women must sit aside and could not eating anything unless their men have finished, and if the men say “Yes”, they could not say ”No”. Maybe we think this is unfair for women, but actually the women in Korea are please to do that. In their worldview, they think that’s right and nature and that’s their lives.

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Worldview is a culture’s orientation toward God, humanity, nature, questions of existence, the universe and cosmos, life, death, sickness, and other philosophical issues that influence how its members perceive their world. Christian believe in that god is the one who created people, but Buddhist think Nu Wa gave birth to human.

Worldview has transmitted from generation to generation and plants a deep root in the offspring. Some people will eat censer burning ash to cure their sickness instead of seeing doctor, because they are taught to use this method when they are born in this world, they construct this world view when they are start to learn the world, and it’s in this belief that immortals dominate their mind、life、death、sickness and so on.

Religion is one kind of worldview dominates people’s thought and act. Christian believe in God and Jesus Lord, they believe strongly in organized worship as a means of proclaiming God’s message, so they go to church every Sunday morning and have timing preaching in church or in other place. Buddhist will burn joss sticks to their immortals and make a vow to the immortals. Chinese will fire “yizhi” to pay respect to ancestors and household gods during the important festival. As time pass, all these activities become the culture in it’s society and pass on from generation to generation and religion become the world view deepening people’s thought.

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The other way round, religion as one kind of people’s worldview let the people become the members of the society and share the same culture. Christian enjoy the pleasure which the God bestow to them, as members of their world, they share food、feeling、especially the everywhere God power which is encouraging them when they are upset, leading them toward the luciferous way when facing the choices, curing their mind. God become part of their lives, religion become their whole world view, and the activities become their culture and are transferred from generation to generation.